It looks like the new topic for discussion fin the upcoming presidential election will be the aging infrastructure in this country. Thanks to the tragedy just over 24 hours ago they may be forced to address it. The NY Times had an article about it today with statistics about the problem.

Here are some frightening statistic websites:

Percent age of functionally obsolete or structurally deficient bridges by state as of 2004

Number of functionally obsolete or structurally deficient bridges by state as of 2004

Thanks to JL for the last two links

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